# receive

Pronunciation: say "ri-SEEV" /ɹɪˈsiːv/

## Verb

1. To get or accept something that is given, sent, offered, or paid to you.
   - Simple: To get something that someone gives, sends, offers, or pays to you.
   - _Employees receive their wages directly into their bank accounts._
   - _The charity received thousands of donations after the appeal._
2. To respond to someone or something with a particular reaction, a use found mostly in passive constructions.
   - Simple: To react to something or someone in a certain way, as in "The film was well received."
   - _The proposal was received with deep skepticism by the city council._
   - _Audiences in Europe tend to receive her films more warmly than American critics do._
3. To act as a host for guests, or to admit someone into one's home, presence, or company.
   - Simple: To welcome guests into your home or let visitors come in to see you.
   - _They receive guests in the drawing room after dinner._
   - _The host received each visitor with a warm handshake._
5. To suffer or sustain an injury.
   - Simple: To get an injury from something that happens to you.
   - _She received serious burns in the kitchen fire._
   - _Soldiers receive wounds that take months to heal._
6. To take possession of goods while knowing them to be stolen.
   - Simple: To take goods that you know have been stolen.
   - _People who receive stolen property may face prosecution._
   - _The dealer received crates of stolen electronics for resale._
7. To be positioned to catch a forward pass in football.
   - Simple: To be ready to catch a ball thrown forward in American football.
   - _The tight end slipped into open space near the sideline, ready to receive._
   - _She receives well, rarely dropping a pass thrown her way._
8. To pick up a signal sent out by a transmitter, as a radio or satellite dish does.
   - Simple: To pick up a signal that is being sent out.
   - _The satellite dish receives broadcasts from orbit._
   - _Older radios could not receive digital signals clearly._
9. To accept a custom, tradition, or belief, giving it credence.
   - Simple: To accept a custom or belief as true or proper.
   - _Medieval scholars received the works of Aristotle as authoritative, and few dared to question his account of the heavens._
   - _Scholars no longer receive that doctrine as established fact._
10. To be positioned to return an opponent's serve.
   - Simple: To be ready to hit back a serve in a racket game.
   - _He crouched low, preparing to receive the serve._
   - _He stood well behind the baseline when receiving against big servers, giving himself an extra moment to react._

## Verb

4. To take an idea or information into the mind; to understand it. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: To take an idea into your mind and understand it.

## Other meanings

- (noun) A single operation in which data is taken in by a device.

## Origin

The Latin root is recipere ("take back, accept"), built from re- ("back") and capiō ("to take"). It passed into Old French as receivre and into Middle English as receyven. Conceive, deceive, and perceive are related, and the word pushed out several native Middle English words meaning "to receive."

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